John Singleton Copley America's First Great Portrait Artist By the mid-1700's the portrait was virtually the only art form available to the American painter. Portraiture was in great demand in the colonies and was sufficient to support a small number of artists. WATSON AND THE SHARK Foremost among these was John Singleton Copley. Born in Boston in 1738, Copley was influenced by the mezzotints of ...

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